The Florence Lewis Speare

Florence Lewis Speare was born in 1886. As an undergraduate at Radcliffe College, she was president of Professor G. P. Baker's "English 47" drama club and wrote two prize-winning plays, "Jones vs. Jones" and "Let's Go A-Gardening." After graduation in 1913 she continued to write plays and novels; several of her plays were published and some produced in Boston and elsewhere. She also taught, in 1919-1920 founding the Department of Drama and Expression at Goucher College and lecturing at Johns Hopkins University, and teaching at the Breadloaf Graduate Summer School of English at Middlebury College in 1925. As president of the New York Radcliffe Club and chairman of the entertainment committee of the New York Town Hall Club, she organized dinners in honor of Professor Baker and Radcliffe Presidents Le Baron Russell Briggs and Ada Comstock.